452. What do you mean by Phonetics ?
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A. study of language and rules

B. study of speech sounds

C. study of meaning and syntax

D. study of insects

453. Which of the following statements best characterizes the central questions faced by poetry after the Holocaust ?
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A. Is there a meaningful relationship between World War I poetry and World War II poetry?

B. The horror of the Holocaust was inexpressible; how can poetry speak of what is inexpressible?

C. Is there a relationship between poetry and rationality after the Holocaust?

D. Is it possible for Romantic themes in poetry to be meaningful after the Holocaust?

454. Wilfred Owens Anthem for Doomed Youth begins with the following lines: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons. Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
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A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.

B. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges.

C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.

D. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.

455. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. The Falcon

B. Ulysses

C. The Virginians

D. On Liberty

456. Who is famous for representing London in his novels ?
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A. Dickens

B. W. Scott

C. Hardy

D. Thackeray

457. Who is the first modern novelist ?
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A. Samuel Johnson

B. Samuel Richardson

C. None of the above

D. Samuel Beckett

458. Which of the following traditions was particularlyimportant in Hart Cranes modernist poetry ?
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A. American Romanticism

B. German Romanticism

C. French Classicism

D. British Romanticism

459. Who write the story Story Teller ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. William Wordsworth

C. Thomas Grey

D. Saki
460. Joyces novel Ulysses takes place over what period of time ?
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A. 24 hours

B. 6 months

C. A lifetime

D. A week

462. In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
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A. Yeatss poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeatss life and in his poetry.

B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.

C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.

D. Both A and B
465. Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
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A. Rebecca

B. Ramona

C. Jane Eyre

D. Emma
466. The literary work Kubla khan is_______________?
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A. a verse by Coleridge

B. a drama by Oscar Wilde

C. a short story by Somerset Maugham

D. a history by Vincent Smith

467. Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by___________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Marlowe

C. Shakespeare

D. T.S. Eliot
468. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. All for Love: John Milton

B. Roxana: Daniel Defoe

C. The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith

D. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding

469. WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?
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A. Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

B. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.

C. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.

D. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.

470. The literary work of Kubla Khan is_________________?
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A. a verse by Coleridge

B. a drama by Oscar Wilde

C. a history by Vincent Smith

D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

471. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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A. having no blanks in the verse

B. having no rhyming end

C. having no rhythmic flow

D. having no significance

472. Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?
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A. Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images

B. Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images

C. Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images

D. Inclusion of natural objects as symbols

473. What was the primary significance of The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
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A. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

B. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.

C. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.

D. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.

474. Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
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A. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion

B. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets

C. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

D. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable

475. Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pounds interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?
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A. interest in Fouriers utopian socialist thought.

B. anti-capitalism.

C. interest in ancient Rome.

D. endorsement of Marxism.

476. Shaws Man and Superman is an example of___________?
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A. Romantic Comedy

B. Comedy of Errors

C. Comedy of Manners

D. Comedy of Ideas
477. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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A. 1341 AD

B. 1340 AD

C. 1342 AD

D. 1343 AD

478. But Gods eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. In which poem do these lines appear ?
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A. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

B. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)

C. None of these

D. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)

479. Hero and Hero worship was written by______________?
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A. Carlyle

B. Mill

C. None of these

D. Ruskin

480. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?
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A. Edward gibbon

B. Thomas gray

C. William Blake

D. Alexander Pope

481. What do you mean by Quatrain ?
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A. a stanza of fourteen lines

B. a poem of fourteen lines

C. a stanza of four lines

D. a stanza of six lines

483. Who is an American author ?
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A. Henry W. Longfellow

B. All 4

C. H.D. Thoreau

D. R.W. Emerson

484. T. Hardy is______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A fatalist

C. None of these

D. A lover of nature

485. Which is called the Victorian Age______________?
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A. None of these

B. 20th Century

C. 19th Century

D. 18th Century

486. Who wrote the poem Requiem ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. John Milton

C. Samuel Johnson

D. Robert Louis Stevenson
489. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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A. Arobinda Adigha

B. Arundhoti Roy

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Kiron Dishai

490. Utopia is an ideal state written by_______________?
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A. Thomas More

B. William Shakespeare

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. Thomas Gray

491. In his essay The Roots of Modernism, Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe defines the modern period in the history of art as the time from roughly 1860 to 1970. How does he say modernism is typically defined ?
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A. Modernism is the art produced during the modern period.

B. Modernism is the historical period which followed the modern period.

C. Modernism is the philosophy of modern art.

D. Both A and C
492. The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
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A. Horatio

B. Laerteus

C. None of these

D. Hamlet
493. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
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A. Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. Ted Hughes

C. Christina Rossetti

D. Elizabeth Barret Browning

494. What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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A. a satiric person

B. a drama

C. a satiric caricature of the characters

D. an allegorical statement

495. Which of the following features of Robert Brownings My Last Duchess make it classifiable as a Victorian poem ?
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A. All of these answers

B. It is concerned with conventional 19thcentury relations between a man and a woman.

C. It has a regular rhyme scheme (aa/bb/cc/dd), which is sustained throughout the poem.

D. It is primarily a narrative poem.

496. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are written by________________?
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A. William Blake

B. John Keats

C. John Milton

D. P.B. Shelley

497. Ezra Pounds Canto I opens with the following lines: And then went down to the ship,/Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and(). Which of the following statements best characterizes these lines and the poem as a whole ?
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A. These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.

B. These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.

C. These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.

D. These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.

498. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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A. 1000 years ago

B. 3000 years ago

C. 1500 years ago

D. 2000 years ago
499. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between Georgian poetry and English World War I poetry ?
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A. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with womens rights.

B. World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.

C. Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.

D. Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.

500. Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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A. The Elizabethan Age

B. The Commonwealth Period

C. The Jacobean Age

D. The Middle English Period